5 get life term in schoolgirl gang rape case

A Gazipur court yesterday sentenced five people, including a woman, to life term imprisonment in a case filed over gang rape of a girl in Madhupur upazila of Tangail district in 2012.

The judge of Gazipur women and children repression prevention tribunal Sayed Zahed Mansur handed down the verdict in presence of the accused. The court also fined each of the convicts Tk one lakh, in default to suffer one year more in jail
The convicted are--Bithi Akter Iva, 23, SM Nuruzzaman Geda, 44, Mohammed Harun-Or-Rashid, 27, Shahjahan Ali, 44, and Moniruzzaman, 43. 
According to the prosecution, Bithi and the victim, a student of class nine of a local school, went to attend a marriage ceremony of Bithi’s cousin in Madhupur on December 6 in 2012. 
Then, Bithi took the victim to Nuruzzaman’s house at Aushnara area of Madhupur upazila in Tangail where Nuruzzaman, Harun Or Rashid, Shahjahan and Moniruzzaman violated her one after another. They held the victim there for three days and repeatedly violated her which left her critically injured.   After three days, Bithi left her near a rail track beside the victim’s house and threatened her not tell anyone about the incident.
The family members of the victim taken the her to Tangail General Hospital and later shifted to the forensic medicine department of Dhaka Medical College Hospital for treatment. 
Later victim’s brother filed a case with Madhupur Police Station under the Children and Women Repression Prevention Act against the four rapists Nuruzzaman, Harun Or Rashid , Shahjahan, Moniruzzaman and  also Bithi on December 31.

5 get life term in schoolgirl gang rape case

A Gazipur court yesterday sentenced five people, including a woman, to life term imprisonment in a case filed over gang rape of a girl in Madhupur upazila of Tangail district in 2012. The judge of Gazipur women and children repression prevention tribunal Sayed Zahed Mansur handed down the verdict in presence of the accused. The court also fined each of the convicts Tk one lakh, in default to suffer one year more in jail The convicted are--Bithi Akter Iva, 23, SM Nuruzzaman Geda, 44, Mohammed Harun-Or-Rashid, 27, Shahjahan Ali, 44, and Moniruzzaman, 43. According to the prosecution, Bithi and the victim, a student of class nine of a local school, went to attend a marriage ceremony of Bithis cousin in Madhupur on December 6 in 2012. Then, Bithi took the victim to Nuruzzamans house at Aushnara area of Madhupur upazila in Tangail where Nuruzzaman, Harun Or Rashid, Shahjahan and Moniruzzaman violated her one after another. They held the victim there for three days and repeatedly violated her which left her critically injured. After three days, Bithi left her near a rail track beside the victims house and threatened her not tell anyone about the incident. The family members of the victim taken the her to Tangail General Hospital and later shifted to the forensic medicine department of Dhaka Medical College Hospital for treatment. Later victims brother filed a case with Madhupur Police Station under the Children and Women Repression Prevention Act against the four rapists Nuruzzaman, Harun Or Rashid , Shahjahan, Moniruzzaman and also Bithi on December 31.